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PP 1 Cell Injury And Death Flashcards

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2 causes of cell injury

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Environmental
Non environmental

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Environment cause of cell injury

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Hypoxia
Toxins/poisons
Immune mediated
Physical agents
Infection
Nutritional/dietary

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Non environmental causes of cell injury

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Genetics
Ageing

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Hypoxia meaning

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Oxygen deprivation

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Causes of hypoxia

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Hypoxaemic hypoxia
Anaemic hypoxia
Ischaemic hypoxia
Histotoxic hypoxia

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What is hypoxaemic hypoxia?

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Arterial content of O2 is low

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What is anaemia hypoxia?
Example

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Decreased ability of haemoglobin to carry oxygen
e.g. carbon monoxide poisoning

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What is ischaemic hypoxia?

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Interruption of blood supply

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What is histotoxic hypoxia?

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Inability to utilise O2 due to disabled oxidative phosphorylation enzyme

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How long does it take for neurones to be affected by hypoxia?

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A few minutes

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why is CPR needed ASAP in cardiac arrest?

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Neurones are affected by hypoxia after a few minutes
To prevent brain damage

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How long does it take for skeletal muscle to be affected by hypoxia?

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A few hours

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Examples of toxins

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Poison
Pollutant
Insecticides
Herbicides
Asbestos
Alcohol
Drugs

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What is a hypersensitivity reaction?
Example

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Injury secondary to excessive immune reaction to a non self antigen
E.g. anaphylaxis

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Physical agents examples

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Trauma
Extreme temp. - frost bite, burns
Electric currents
Radiotherapy

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Types of microbes

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Bacterial
Viral
Parasitic
Fungal

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Nutritional/dietary issues which can cause cell injury

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Obesity
Anorexia
Dietary deficiency or excesses - B12/folate/vit D/fat

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Issues due to genetics/ageing

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Inborn errors of metabolism
Enzyme deficiencies
Dysfunctional proteins

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What happens in reversible cell damage?

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  • swelling: due to Na+/K pump failure
  • cytoplasmic blebs
  • clumped chromatin: due to reduced pH
  • ribosome dispersion: lack of ATP to hold together
  • membrane remains intact
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What happens in irreversible cell damage?

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  • nuclear changes
  • membrane defects > causes lysis of ER
  • lysosome rupture
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What is cell death due to?

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Irreversible cell injury

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Types of cell death

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Apoptosis
Necrosis

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Apoptosis meaning

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Individual programmed cell death

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Describe apoptosis

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Single cell death
Cell shrinks
Plasma membrane preserved
Organelles contract
DNA cleaved between nucleosides
Dead cells taken up by phagocytosis

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Pathways of apoptosis

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Intrinsic (mitochondrial)
Extrinsic (death receptor)

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Intrinsic pathway of apoptosis

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Mitochondria released cytochrome C
Activates caspases which induce apoptosis

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What are caspases?

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Enzymes involved in cell death

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Extrinsic pathway of apoptosis

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Death receptors attach to cell membrane which activates caspases > apoptosis

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What are death receptors secreted by?

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T killer cells

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30
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Describe necrosis

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Grouped cell death
Cell swells
Plasma membrane destroyed
Organelles swell and break down
DNA is degraded randomly
Dead cells start inflammatory process

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Characteristic nuclear changes in necrosis

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Pyknosis
Karyorrhexis
Karyolysis

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What is pyknosis?

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Nuclear shrinkage

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What is karyorrhexis?

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Nuclear fragmentation

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What is karyolysis?

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Nuclear dissolution

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Main types of necrosis

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Coagulative
Liquefactive

36
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Other types of necrosis

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Caseous
Fat necrosis
Fibrinoid necrosis

37
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What type of necrosis is often a sign of TB?

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Caseous necrosis

38
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Describe coagulative necrosis

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Solid organs
Retains ghost outline of cells
Protein denaturation > release of proteases

39
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Describe liquefactive necrosis

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Damage of loose tissue
Complete loss of architecture
Tissue breakdown due to release of proteases

Often in soft organs within collagenous framework e.g.brain or areas of many neutrophils

40
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Describe fat necrosis

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Direct trauma onto fatty areas
Many adipocytes
e.g. Acute pancreatitis

41
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Molecules released by dead cells

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Potassium
Myoglobin
Enzymes

42
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Who have high levels of myoglobin?

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Extreme sports athletes
Older people after a fall
Due to over worked muscles

43
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What is myoglobin highly toxic to?

44
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What does high levels of myoglobin cause?

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Rhabdomyolysis

45
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Sign of rhabdomyolysis

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Tea coloured urine

46
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What could tea coloured urine indicate?

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Rhabdomyolysis

47
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Gangrene meaning

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Necrosis visible to naked eye

48
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Infarction meaning

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Necrosis cause by reduction in arterial blood flow

49
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What can ischaemia cause?

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Infarction

50
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What can an infarction cause?

51
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Type of gangrene

52
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What is dry gangrene due to?
What type of necrosis is seen?

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Due to necrosis being exposed to air
Coagulative necrosis

53
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What is wet gangrene due to?
What type of necrosis is seen?

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Due to necrosis being exposed to infection
Liquefactive necrosis

54
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What is gas gangrene due to?
What does it look like?
Where is it commonly seen?

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  • Due to wet gangrene being infected by anaerobic bacteria
  • visible palpable bubbles of gas within tissue
  • Often in traffic accidents
55
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Where is gas gangrene often see?

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Traffic accidents

56
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Complications of infarctions depend on…

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  • alternative blood supply?
  • speed of ischaemia
  • tissues involved
  • O2 content of blood
57
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What is pathological calcification?

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Abnormal deposition of calcium within tissues

58
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Types of pathological calcification

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Dystrophic/localised
Metastatic/generalised

59
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Where does dystrophic calcification occur?

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Areas of dying tissues
Atherosclerotic plaques
Within neoplastic growths
Ageing or damaged heart valves
TB lymph nodes

60
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Where does metastatic calcification occur?

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Body wide
Hydroxyapatite crystals deposited in normal tissues in cases of hypercalcaemia

61
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Mechanisms of cell injury

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  • depletion of ATP
  • direct mitochondrial damage
  • direct membrane damage
  • disruption of calcium homeostasis
  • oxidative stress (free radicals)
  • direct damage to DNA and proteins
62
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How does hypoxia cause ATP deletion?

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1- cells deprived of oxygen
2- reduction in oxidative phosphorylation
3- mitochondrial ATP production stops

63
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Effect of reduction in ATP

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  • Anaerobic glycolysis > decrease in cell pH > affects enzymes
  • ATP needed for NA+/K+ pump > cell swelling + Ca2+ enters cells > irreversible cell damage
  • Ribosomes detach from ER > reduce protein synthesis
64
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What does a Ca2+ influx cause?

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Irreversible cell damage

65
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What does excess calcium activate?

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ATPases
Phosphilpases
Proteases
Endonucleases

66
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What do ATPases do?

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Catalyses the hydrolysis of the phosphate bond in ATP to ADP

67
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What do endonucleases do?

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Breakdown DNA

68
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What is a free radical?

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Atom with unaired electron

69
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Is necrosis always only pathological, only physiological or both?

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Pathological only

70
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What are free radicals generated in?

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Chemical/radiation injury
Cellular ageing
Anti-microbial killing by phagocytosis
Ischaemia-reperfusion injury

71
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What is the most dangerous free radical?

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OH° hydroxyl

72
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What do free radicals damage?

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Lipid
Protein
DNA

73
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What antioxidants help the body control free radicals?

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  • free radical scavengers
  • ascrobic acid
  • glutathione GSH
74
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Enzymes used to control free radicals

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  • superoxidase dismutase SOD + catalase
  • glutathione peroxidase
75
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How does superoxide dismutase control free radicals?

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  • SOD: 2 superoxides > 2H2O2
  • catalase: 2H2O2 > 2H2O + O2
76
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Heat shock protein function

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Help repair + refold damaged proteins
Label proteins for degeneration

77
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Infarction meaning

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Necrosis due to ischaemia

78
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Describe caseous necrosis

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Structureless
Reduced individuality > looks like a clump
Often in TB

79
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What does the body have to control free radical damage?

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Heat shock proteins
e.g. ubiquitin

80
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What transport proteins are used to control free radicals?

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Iron binds by transferrin
Calcium binds by ceruloplasmin

81
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What are the most common free radicals?

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Hydroxyl
Superoxides
Hydrogen peroxide

82
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Where is Liquefactive necrosis often seen?

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Often in soft organs within collagenous framework e.g.brain
Areas of many neutrophils

83
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Where does coagulative necrosis occur?

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Solid organs
e.g heart, liver, kidneys, spleen

84
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Is there haemorrhage associated with white or red infarcts?

85
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Where do white infarcts occur?
What are they due to?
What shape are they often in?
Is there associated haemorrhage?

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  • solid organs e.g.spleen, kidney, heart
  • occlusion of end artery
  • wedge shaped
  • no associated haemorrhage
86
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Where do red infarcts occur?
Is there associated haemorrhage?

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  • organs with dual blood supply e.g. intestines, lungs
  • associated with haemorrhage into dead tissue

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